Primula sieboldii ‘Vivid Pink’

Flat blooming, overlap petalled pin.  White flowers with pale pink suffused reverse. The cultivar name derives from the river in Saitama, central Japan.

This Primula sieboldii cultivar petal colour is a rich pink, but it “sports” heavily.  Sporting cultivars are popular in Japanese collections.  Our collection plants are predominantly pale pink sporting, with splashes of the dark pink. We were given a lesson in primula genetics at Chelsea Flower Show in 2018! Flat, cherry-blossom petals. We obtained this [...]

Wave blooming, cherry blossom petalled pin.  White flowers with pale blue suffusion and pale blue reverse.  Like many of the ‘blue’ cultivars, this tends to flower later in the season.  We do not know the origins of this very pretty compact sakurasu cultivar, which we sourced in 2005.

Flat blooming, cherry blossom petalled pin.  White edged and white centred deep pink flowers.  This is a very reliable later flowering Primula sieboldii cultivar.  It was raised on our nursery in 2010 and named after one of Penny’s cats.